Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is set to become the new President of Sri Lanka as he amassed ...

ECONOMYNEXT –Early results of Sri Lanka’s ninth presidential poll held on Saturday showed Marxists Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna ...

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka held presidential elections on Saturday, serving as a de facto referendum on the contentious ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake of Sri Lanka's National People's Power, backed by the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, has taken ...

The ongoing count in Saturday's poll showed Anura Kumara Dissanayaka on just over 40 percent with about half of all votes ...

Polls show no clear winner unless there is a last minute surge for a candidate ahead of election day in Sri Lanka. Stability ...

Over 70 per cent turnout was recorded in districts like Hambantota, Kandy, Vavuniya, Polonnaruwa, Mannar, Trincomalee, ...

Sri Lankan politics was largely dominated by one family since 2005. However, this seems to have changed after the economic and national crisis of 2022 and in the current presidential election, there ...

The crisis, which led to widespread food and fuel shortages, prompted Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country in 2022. The economic policy of Rajapaksa, followed by the onset of ...

Over 17 million voters are set to decide the country's president. The vote comes after Sri Lanka defaulted on its foreign debt 2022, triggering the worst economic crisis in decades.

Sri Lanka’s creditors (China being the largest) have to hope that the conservative Premadasa (a London School of Economics ...

Women make up more than half of the voters in Sri Lanka, but in Saturday’s presidential election, not even one will be on the ...